The Sámi World

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world.

The chapters examine a variety of social and cultural practices, and consideration is given to environment, legal and political conditions and power relations. The contributions by a range of experts of Sámi studies and Indigenous scholars are drawn from across the Sápmi region, which spans from central Norway and central Sweden across Finnish Lapland to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Sámi perspectives, concepts and ways of knowing are foregrounded throughout the volume. The material connects with wider discussions within Indigenous studies and engages with current concerns relating to globalization, environmental and cultural change, Arctic politics, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and neoliberalism.

The Sámi World will be of interest to scholars from a number of disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science.

Sanna Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Professor of Sámi Research at the University of Lapland, Finland. She is co-editor of Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging (Routledge, 2018).

Áile Aikio is a Sámi scholar and doctoral candidate of sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland. In her PhD research, Aikio examines indigenization of the museum.

Saara Alakorva is a Sámi scholar, doctoral candidate of political sciences, and university teacher of Arctic world politics at the University of Lapland, Finland. In her PhD research, Alakorva studies Sámi political history and contemporary Sámi political thinking.

Sigga-Marja Magga is a Sámi scholar and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her work focuses on duodji handicraft and duodji epistemes.